Autumn cleaning has begun on Hamburg's paths and squares.
From mid-October to mid-December there are up to 20,000 tons of leaves, as the city cleaning service announced on Friday.
This amount is enough to fill around 400,000 standard garbage cans.
If you were to place the bins next to each other, that would correspond to the distance from Hamburg to Osnabrück.
Hamburg - In order to collect these amounts of leaves in the coming weeks, according to the information, more than 600 employees of the city cleaning department are on duty.
You clear the leaves by hand or with road sweepers from numerous cycle paths and sidewalks, streets and watercourses in the Hanseatic city.
The leaves are composted.
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In addition to brooms and rakes, the city cleaners also use around 100 small trucks and more than 80 sweepers for the job.
Good news for the people of Hamburg: of the 270 leaf blowers, more than 230 are electrically operated.
By 2023, internal combustion engine leaf blowers should no longer be used.
Residents who clean their sidewalks themselves should not sweep the leaves onto the street this year either.
According to city cleaning, larger amounts of leaves belong to the recycling yards or in special leaf sacks that are picked up by city cleaning on fixed dates.
Small amounts of leaves should be put in the organic waste bin or in a pile in the garden - these are important winter quarters for hedgehogs in particular.
dpa
